{"id":1052,"date":"2009-05-05T10:33:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T10:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:12:42","slug":"affirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Affirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the best word I can come up with right now to describe how it feels to see my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.nz\/en-NZ\/PB\/SC\/Documents\/Evidence\/5\/d\/9\/49SCETSSCevidenceETSR_079-Morgan-Davie.htm\">submission to the climate change committee<\/a> on the parliament website.<br \/>\nIt shows that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/morgue\/archives\/002814.html\">the effort I went to<\/a> didn&#8217;t just disappear into the aether, never to be seen again.<br \/>\nIt shows that my voice has been heard by everyone sitting on that committee. (Not listened to, necessarily, but certainly it has been heard.)<br \/>\nIt shows that our democracy has functioning channels of straightforward communication.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a good feeling, actually. I recommend it. Participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the best word I can come up with right now to describe how it feels to see my submission to the climate change committee on the parliament website. It shows that the effort I went to didn&#8217;t just disappear into the aether, never to be seen again. It shows that my voice has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1052\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Affirmed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political","category-sustainability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8D9ZE-affirmed","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2264,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/2264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}